APITHERAPY |
Promoting and integrating apitherapy into national and international health systems – Current status and regulatory issues. |
Clinical trials with well-defined apitherapeutic protocols – doses, effectiveness, side effects. |
Bee products in human health and nutrition |
Effectiveness of bee products in fighting viral diseases (Covid-19) |
BEE BIOLOGY |
Pathogen Spillover and the role of managed bees |
Conserving Apis subspecies and ecotypes |
Nutritional landscape |
Spermatozoa/embryos Cryopreservation for breeding programs |
Apis cerana, stingless bees and other Apis |
Honey bee Genomics- proteomics |
Bee breeding |
BEEKEPING ECONOMY |
Detection and Prevention of Honey Fraud |
Diversifying Income Sources for Beekeepers |
International Honey Market Trends |
Marketing, Branding, Value Chains-Commercial |
Local honey cooperatives |
The impact of COVID- 19 on beekeeping profits |
BEEKEEPING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT |
Bees and forests |
Nature Based Beekeeping |
Building livelihoods around bees |
Linking local producers with the buying public |
Local bees, local skills and local experience |
Bees and social endeavours |
BEE HEALTH |
The role of pesticides in bee health |
Breeding for Disease /Mite Resistance |
Health of queens/ drones |
Impact of Pests, Parasites and Pathogens on Bees and their control |
Innovations for monitoring colony health/ production |
Honey bee health and nutrition |
Antibiotics and Microbial resistance |
Monitoring and mitigation measures for new Invasive species |
Climate change effects on bee health and well being |
POLLINATION AND BEE FLORA |
Pollination of crops: how to pollinate and avoid pesticides |
Apis and non-Apis pollination |
Pollinator conservation in agricultural systems |
Characterization and development of floral resources |
Pollination & Flora with Environmental change |
BEEKEEPING TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY |
Methods to detect wax and honey fraud |
New technologies to monitor hives and diseases |
Characterization of bee products |
Quality aspects of all bee products |
Queen rearing/ mating control |